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Noun Concept
Categories: Pleasure, Autonomic nervous system, Articles with short description, Musical terminology
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frisson  shiver  chill  quiver  shudder
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An almost pleasurable sensation of fright WordNet 3.0
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Frisson, also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively-valenced affective state and transient paresthesia, sometimes along with piloerection and mydriasis. Wikipedia
A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness. Wiktionary
Sudden penetrating sense of cold. Wiktionary (translation)
A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson. Wiktionary
Moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson. Wiktionary (translation)
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A frisson of surprise shot through him WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
I felt a chill when the wind picked up. Wiktionary
Close the window or you'll catch a chill. Wiktionary
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